Letter: Stop the lying about this bill

Star-Ledger file photoThe health care bill that may reach President Obama's desk is targeted for statements the letter writer believes are lies.

It’s time for the president of the United States and Congress to stop lying to the American people about the Senate Health Care Bill (the House version hardly being any better).

They claim it contains a "bill of rights" which makes it all better, despite the fact that anything that would have provided for real structural reform has been systematically excluded (Medicare buy-in, prescription drug reimportation, etc.). They won’t even allow the most feeble of so-called "public" options

And stop lying to us about how the insurance companies are so opposed to the legislation that was drafted to their own specifications. The fact is they can’t stop chortling, and you know it and we know it.